Establishing key components of naturopathic management of women with diminished ovarian reserve: A Delphi study.

Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest Authors AM, CE, SA and MA are academic researchers at NICM Health Research Institute. As a medical research institute, NICM Health Research Institute receives research grants and donations from foundations, universities, government agencies, and industry. Sponsors and donors provide untied and tied funding for work to advance the vision and mission of the Institute. AM declares that she is a naturopathic practitioner at a clinic in Sydney, Australia. She is the recipient of a scholarship from the Jacka Foundation of Natural Therapies for her PhD. The funding body had no role in the design of the study, in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data, in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results. CE declares that she is the Jacka Foundation Senior Research Fellow, Chair of the RACGP Integrative Medicine Specific Interest Network (voluntary role), Program Lead of an academic integrative healthcare centre (no financial interest), past General Practitioner Advisory Board member for Blackmores Research Institute, has received industry funding from nutraceutical device companies to conduct clinical trials, and has received honoraria and had travel expenses covered for presenting at complementary medicine events. SA declares that she is a naturopathic practitioner at an obstetrics and gynaecology clinic in Sydney, Australia. She has received payment for providing expert editing of naturopathic and herbal medicine educational programs, and for investigation of naturopathy, herbal medicines and nutraceuticals in clinical trials and spoken at workshops, seminars and conferences for which registration, travel and/or accommodation has been paid by the organisers. MA declares that he is the chair of the Research Studies committee and the chair of the Clinical Advisory Committee, both for Endometriosis Australia. He works in private clinical practice as a TEAM practitioner at Sydney Endometriosis. He has received funding from Metagenics, Oz Medicann Group, the Medical Research Futures Fund, Canopy Growth and the Victorian Government, all outside the submitted work. MC has no competing interests.